On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > I have a Win32 console mode application that hangs in an inf. loop
> > trying to use FindWindowA() to find it's text mode console window (which
> > Wine displays nicely in an xterm). The cause of the problem appears to be
> > that in Wine console windows do not get added to the global window list
> > (I do not have access to any MS operating systems to verify if this is the
> > correct behaviour or not - I assume so as this application does reportedly
> > run).
>
> > Can someone who is familar with the Wine source tree give me a
> > couple pointers as to which files/data structures I should be concerned
> > with so I can add console windows to the global window list?
>
> This will be rather difficult, since both are very seperate right now.
> And providing "virtual" USER windows for Win32 Consoles is absolutely
> nontrivial.
Well, using an xterm is not the best solution anyway, there are numerous
problems with it. I think the console really should be a window managed by
wine, created by CreateWindow, painted with TextOut or something, etc...
